Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals retain an electoral stranglehold on Toronto, a new poll has found.

A new poll shows Premier Kathleen Wynne's minority Liberals enjoy 42 per cent support in Toronto compared with 30 per cent for the NDP, 25 per cent for the Progressive Conservatives, and 3 per cent for the Greens.

Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals retain an electoral stranglehold on Toronto, a new poll has found.

Under Wynne, the minority Liberals are at 42 per cent in the city compared with 30 per cent for Andrea Horwath’s New Democrats, 25 per cent for Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives, and 3 per cent for Mike Schreiner’s Greens.

With 23 of Ontario’s 107 ridings in the provincial capital — and the Liberals holding 18 of the seats and the NDP five — that’s good news for the rookie premier, said Forum Research president Lorne Bozinoff.

“Wynne’s honeymoon is continuing. She’s really connecting with people,” Bozinoff said Wednesday, noting the New Democrats are not doing as well as they should in Toronto.

Using interactive voice response phone calls, Forum polled 1,045 Toronto residents on Tuesday with results considered accurate to within five percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Bozinoff said the poll should alarm the Tories, who have not won a Toronto provincial seat since 1999 despite Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s success here in the 2011 federal election and Mayor Rob Ford’s 2010 civic victory.

“They’re still not in it in Toronto. They need a 416 strategy.”

Compounding Hudak’s urban woes, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union on Wednesday released a new short comedy film by famed Toronto director Bruce McDonald.

McDonald’s three-minute YouTube movie, No Free Ride, takes aim at the Tories’ proposed changes to labour laws that would allow workers to opt out of paying union dues while still benefiting from collective bargaining.

Starring actors Sean Baek, Aaron Abrams, and Hannah Cheesman, the film depicts a scofflaw trying to get a free ride in a taxi and claiming the PC leader said it was all right.

OPSEU president Warren (Smokey) Thomas said the union bankrolled the film to warn against “the kind of extremism we’re seeing with Hudak as Tory leader.”

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